Connecting means for locomotive pilots and footboards.



s. E. TOUT. CONNECTING MEANS FOR LOGOMOTIVE PILOTS AND FOOTBOARDS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11. 1913. 1,076,081

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CONNECTIN'G MEANS FOR LOCOIi/TOTIVE PILOTS AND FOCTBOARDS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Gct.21,1913.

To .all wimm it may concern:

, Be it known that I, SIDNEY E. TOUT, of the city of Toronto, in the Province of On tario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Connecting Means for Locomotive Pilots and Footboards, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to devise means for attaching, pilots to locomotives which will enable a damaged pilot to be re moved with a minimum of labor and in much shorter time than is possible with ordinary connections and which will enable the pilot to be quickly replaced by a footboard if an engine is required for yard purposes.

I attain my object by providing the buffer beam and pilot stays with projecting metal tongues which pass through slots in the stiles of the pilot, retaining-keys being passed through the tongues to retain the pilot in place. Metal plates are fitted between the keys and the stiles of the pilot, which plates are preferably used as bearings for the coupler operating lever.

By removing the keys. and plates the pilot can easily be slipped off the tongues. If a foot board is to be attached its hangers are slotted to fiton the tongues and wooden blocks are provided as fillers between the plates and hangers, the keys being passed through the tongues as before.

The construction is hereinafter more fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a pilot connected in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same partly in sect-ion. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 1 is a front view of a foot board connected in accordance with my invention. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the connecting tongues. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the end of a pilot stay constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 8 is vertical section of a modification of the connection, and Fig. 9 is a rear elevation of one of the stiles of a pilot provided with the modified connection.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

1 is the buffer beam and 2 parts of the pilot stays of a locomotive. The ends (31 I the pilot stays are shouldered and provided with projecting tongues 3. Similar tongues 4 provided with heads 5 are secured to the buffer beam 1, preferably by being inserted through holes formed in the buffer beam, the headsbutting against the rear side of the beam. The stiles 6 of the pilot are slotted to fit on the tonguesB and 4 which project therethrough. Retaining keys or wedges 7 are passed through the tongues and serve to hold the pilot in place. It is necessary to provide metal bearing plates 8 to take the wear and strain of the retainingkeys and I find that I can satisfactorily combine such plates with the bearings 9 for theshaft of the coupler operating lever 10. When a foot board is to be used instead of a pilot, the metal hangers 11 being thinner than the stiles of a pilot, I find it necessary to use the filling blocks 12 between the plates 8 and the hangers.

In the form shown in Figs. 8 and 9 the tongues are replaced by headed bolts 13, and the pilot, or foot board, is provided with a plate 14 secured thereto and provided with a keyhole slot whereby a plate may be engaged with the bolt head as shown. The construction shown in the other views is, however, deemed preferable.

From the above description it will be seen that I have devised means whereby pilots, foot boards, snow plows or similar structures may be easily attached or detached in very much less time than is possible with the present bolted connections, thus saving not only the workmens time in effecting changes, but also the delays to the locomotive and its crew which now occur when changes re uire to be made. The invention may also e used in connection with other forms of rolling stock and particularly electric cars.

-What I claim as my invention is t l. The combination with a buffer beam and pilot stays having tongues projecting therefrom of a structure having members slotted to be fitted on said tongues which project therethrough; and retaining keys passing through said tongues.

2. The combination with a buffer beam and pilot stays having tongues projecting therefrom of a structure having members slotted to be fitted on said tongues which project therethrough; plates fitted on said tongues outside the parts of said structure; and retaining keys passing through said tongues outside said plates.

3. The combination with a butter beam and pilot stays having tongues projecting therefrom of a structure having members slotted to be fitted on said tongues which project therethrough; plates fitted on said tongues outside the parts of said structure provided with shaft bearings; and retaining keys passing through said tongues out side said plates.

l. The combination with a butter beam having metal tongues passed therethrough from the rear and having heads bearing against the rear side of said beam of a structure having members slotted to be fitted on said tongues which project therethrough; and retaining keys passing through said tongues.

5. The combination with a buffer beam and pilot stays having tongues projecting therefrom of a structure having members slotted to be fitted on said tongues which project therethrough; plates fitted on said fitted on said tongues which project there-- through; and retaining keys passing through said tongues.

7. The combination with a vehicle having tongues projecting therefrom of a structure having members slotted to be fitted on said tongues which project therethrough; plates fitted on said tongues outside the parts of said structure; and retaining keys passing through said tongues outside said plates.

Toronto, this 26th day of February 1913.

SIDNEY E. TOUT.

Signed in the presence of-- TV. A. Bane), FREDERlCK SHEPI-IARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

